Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

10.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

24.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

43.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

44.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd